Founded in 1767, City of London law firm Druces has 250+ years’ experience of advising public and privately-owned businesses and wealthy individuals across a range of industry sectors.
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Light up the darkness."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"I am still learning."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."